Ultrafast imaging of beamformed shear waves induced by the acoustic radiation force. Application to transient elastography

Proceedings of the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 1899-1902

  Bercoff, Jeremy ^a   Tanter, Mickael ^a   Chaffai, Sana ^a   Fink, Mathias ^a  

^a INSTITUT LANGEVIN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN'S FUNCTION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; REVERBERATION; SHEAR WAVES; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA; ULTRASONIC PROPAGATION;

ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE; SONOELASTICITY; TRANSIENT ELASTOGRAPHY; ULTRAFAST IMAGING; ULTRASONIC ARRAY;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0036995742     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2002.1192669     Document Type: Article

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